Word: cambodia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most delegates felt that the Red Chinese had helped keep themselves out. As the seating discussions began two months ago, Cambodia lobbied for a proposal that would invite Red China in without tossing the Chinese Nationalists out. That might have won Peking an impressive majority. But Peking vetoed the idea and ordered its friends to press for a resolution that would expel the Nationalists from the U.N. while seating Red China, and contained a barrage of proposals for a revolutionary overhaul of the U.N. What Peking wanted was to wreck the U.N. Would it accept anything less? After last week...
...withdrawal would now be more than an international embarrassment. The U.S. has repeated its commitment too often, in words too strong, for any of its promises to be considered genuine if it reneges on this one. Prince Sihanouk said two weeks ago that if the U.S. withdraws from Vietnam "Cambodia will be a ripe fruit, which the Communists will be able to savor without having to take the trouble to pick it from the tree as the "Khmer Reds' will cause it to fall straight into their laps...
...Tigris and Euphrates rivers for power and irrigation. Brazil has just completed the $186 million Furnas Dam, South America's largest hydroelectric complex. In a project financed by the U.N. and 20 Western nations, four dams are being thrown across the Mekong River and tributaries in Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Viet Nam. As part of the Indus River project, India has built one of the world's highest dams (740 ft.) across the Sutlej River at Bhakra...
Nellson's list runs for 1,736 pages, from Aden (bone sellers, dates, gums and spices) to Zambia (cement makers, mining companies, clothing manufacturers). The International Yellow Pages also locates beeswax in Angola, molasses in the British West Indies, yacht charterers in Cambodia, industrial real estate agents and vodka vendors in the Soviet Union, lawyers in the Fiji Islands, safari services in Kenya, coconut harvesters in Tanzania. Even Pope Paul's Vatican City telephone number is in the book: Vatican City...
...Sargent, paid Paderewski $1,000 to play for her privately at home, entertained Henry James at tea (James described the effects of a chat with her as "absolute vertigo"). She wore diamonds in her hair, hung ropes of pearls around her waist, traveled to Europe, Egypt, Java, Japan and Cambodia...